Hot Corner: No SEC rematch in BCS title game

Spare us a Florida-Alabama rematch in the BCS championship. (AP Photo)Stop me if this sounds familiar: The top two college football teams in the nation are on a collision course for an end-of-the-season showdown. And well before that game is even played, fanboys (and fangirls) of the two teams and their conference are lobbying for a rematch in the BCS title game.

Yes, how soon we forget the 2006 season, when Ohio State and Michigan were in the same scenario and there was much criticism from outside the Big Ten about the possibility that these teams should meet again for the national title. If it wasn't OK for the Big Ten in 2006, why should it be OK for SEC apologists to lobby for it in 2009 with Florida and Alabama?

The pervasive argument in 2006 was that there were too many good teams from too many good leagues that had played too many good games to allow a Big Ten rematch.

What has changed? Nothing, other than the conference isn't the Big Ten in the throes of its last true relevancy. It's the SEC, which we all know is the greatest, most wonderful and most powerful association since the Holy Roman Empire.

Even if Texas should lose a game, why should Cincinnati, TCU and Boise State be ignored if they are undefeated? Answer: They shouldn't, when they've done everything asked of them.

What right does the Florida-Alabama loser have to a second bite at the apple when other undefeated teams have earned their right to a first? None. The SEC loser had its chance, now move along.

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